Afghanistan about wealth

Dear editor: Just what is it that makes Afghanistan so exciting? Russians were in there with all its military might for nine years, bombing, destroying, and killing to no end.

After they tired of the effort, they slowly went home with the job not finished. What was their intent?

The Russians, the Brits and Americans have done extensive research regarding Afghanistan’s wealth. The gross estimate is that there is somewhere between $1 to $3 trillion in mineral wealth for the taking. Russia would not have spent nine years and untold dollars to just change the country to another form of politics. No sir.

This was just business, nothing personal. What else? There is an estimate of $123 billion in oil and gas as well as gold, silver tin, copper lead, zinc iron, nickel chromium, halite uranium, gems, lithium — all untouched by big business.

Someone needs to take this away from them.

Afghanistan is also in the centre of future oil and gas pipelines. If someone should take control of this unruly country, so business can get into it. This is truly the richest untouched area for wealth in the world.

Don’t forget, the deposits of rare earth for our cellphones.

What to do? The U.S. could not leave this untouched. We just need a reason to go in there and take control. Oh yes, we could say that the terrorists are hiding in there so we “need” to go in there and rout them out — quickly.

This becomes the role of the U.S. forces — spare no effort, go all hog in there, kill, destroy and take control. Just 16 years later and trillions of U.S. dollars wasted along with $30 billion of Canada’s tax money (Canada wants our share) and the U.S. still does not have control but we can smell the dollars just laying there, waiting to be picked up by busy businesses. If only we could keep the locals calm while we steal their wealth. Maybe more bombs and spent uranium bullets along with much bribe dollars would help.

We must hurry before China or India gets the same idea. Oh yes, everyone is open for business: bribes, no taxes, no pollution laws (yet) — all this can be found in Afghanistan. SNC Lavelin and Bombardier as well as many American companies already know how to get favours so what is the waiting?

Eisenhower was correct: Do not allow the military establishment to have control of government. Jorgen Hansen Kelowna